Clothes-drier



(No Model.)

- R. Z. CURTIS.

CLOTHES DRIER.

No. 491,987. Patented Feb. 21', 1893.

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RUBY Z. CURTIS, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

CLOTHES-DRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 491,987, dated February21, 1893. Application filed November 30, 1891- Serial No. 413,481. Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, RUBY Z. CURTIS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Minneapolis, in the county of I-Iennepin and State ofMinnesota,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in BracketOlothes-Driers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

My invention relates to clothes-driers and is in the form of a bracketclothes-drier adapted to be hung up on the wallor other support.

The invention consists of certain novel devices and combinations ofdevices,which will be hereinafter fully described and be particularlypointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings like letters referring to like partsthroughout, Figure l is a front view of the bracket with clothes sticksremoved. Fig. 2 is aside elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a crosssection on the line X X of Fig. 1. Fig. 4: is a section on the line Y Yof Fig. 1, some parts being shown in full.

Fig. 5 is a plan View of one of the segmental supports for theclothes-sticks detached; and Fig. 6 is a front end view of the same.

A is the body of the bracket, preferably made of. an ornamental form.

B and C are a pair of co-operating segmental heads or supports for theclothes-sticks and are detachably connected to the body of the bracket.Of these supports or heads, B is the lower and larger, and O the upperand smaller of the two. The body of the bracket is provided withprojecting lips or flanges a on its front surface, which form with thebody of the bracket, wedge shaped seats for receiving correspondingwedge-shaped projections or feet a, on the extremities of the heads Band O. The feet on the upper head 0 extend upward and those on the lowerhead B downward; and the lips or flanges a, project toward each other.These wedge-shaped seats on the back of the body and wedge shaped feeton the supporting-heads afford means for detachably connecting the headsto the body of the bracket. The wedge-shaped feet of the upper head aredriven into their seats, so that the upper head will be held by frictionwhen the clothes-sticks are removed.

The upper head 0' is provided with clownwardly projecting pivot studs 0.D are the clothes-sticks, which are placed in radial arrangement betweenthe two heads and have holes at at their inner ends, in which work thepivot studs 0 of the support 0. Hence, the arms may be adjusted in thearc of a circle to any desired angle with reference to each other. Theupper head O is sufficiently less in the diameter of the circle, thanthe lower head B, to permit the outer end of the arm to be raised upwardto give the necessary dip to the inner end of the arms or sticks D, topermit their attachment and removal from their respective pivot studs.

Two sets of the supporting heads and two sets of sticks or radial armsmay conveniently be attached to the same bracket. When not in use thesticks may be taken down and the supporting heads removed from thebracket and the whole be packed in small compass for storage orshipment.

An outer segmental clamping band B surrounds the upper head O. This bandis in the same vertical plane as the lower head B and approximately inthe same horizontal plane as the tips of the pivot studs C. It is spacedapart from the lower head B so that the opening between the two willbarely pass the inner ends of the sticks under pressure. Hence, thesticks will be held between parts B and B with sufficient friction toprevent the sticks from closing together under jars or gusts of wind.

It will be readily understood that the clothes sticks D are placed inposition, by sliding the same between the supporting heads, and, at thesame time, giving the inserted end thereof a downward pitch to engagetheir pivotholes d, with the depending pivot-studs C. It should befurther noted that the lower supporting head B is cut away inward of itsouter and supporting edge (as shown in Fig. 3.), to permit the saidclothes sticks to be inserted as set forth.

It should be further noted, that the clothes stick may be given thedownward pitch, in placing the same in position between the head B andthe clamping band B, in virtue of the fact that said band B ispositioned immediately over the outer margin of the said head B.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the UnitedStates, is as follows:

In a clothes drier, the combination with the I in position by the Weightof the clothes sticks, clothes sticks of a bracket-like body andunsubstantially as described. [0 der and upper supporting heads, securedto In testimony whereof I affix my signature in said bracket forupholding said sticks, the presence of two witnesses.

said supporting heads being secured to said RUBY Z. CURTIS. bracket bywedge shaped foot and foot-seat XVitnesses:

engagements, extending in opposite dii'ec- JAS. F. WILLIAMSON,

tions, whereby the heads Will be securely held EMMA F. ELMORE.

